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White supremacy group to hold event in Portland
White supremacy group to hold event in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - 1 of the nation's largest white supremacy groups may be coming to Portland. KGW reports that Hammerskin Nation is planning to hold it's annual Hammerfest music festival somewhere in Portland in early October.
The event is being held in conjunction with the Hammerskin Nation's 20th anniversary. So far the Hammerskin Nation has not announced where their event will be held.
KGW found that the Portland Police Bureau is preparing an action plan for the Hammerskins' arrival. Police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schmautz would not reveal the details of that plan. He says the Police Bureau is focused on making sure no laws are broken while the Hammerskin members are in town.
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Non-whites plan to protest Hammerfest 2007
White supremacy group to hold event in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - 1 of the nation's largest white supremacy groups may be coming to Portland. KGW reports that Hammerskin Nation is planning to hold it's annual Hammerfest music festival somewhere in Portland in early October.
The event is being held in conjunction with the Hammerskin Nation's 20th anniversary. So far the Hammerskin Nation has not announced where their event will be held.
KGW found that the Portland Police Bureau is preparing an action plan for the Hammerskins' arrival. Police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schmautz would not reveal the details of that plan. He says the Police Bureau is focused on making sure no laws are broken while the Hammerskin members are in town.
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Non-whites plan to protest Hammerfest 2007
Portland, Oregon – As white supremacists plan a three-day gathering to be held in the greater Portland area from October 5 – 7, community members and anti-racists throughout the Pacific Northwest will gather in response on what is scheduled to be Day Two of the “Hammerfestâ┚¬��Ô�Å¡�â┚¬��Ô�Å¡� hate festival. An anti-racist community gathering and rally will take place on October 6, starting at 1PM in Lents Park located on SE 92nd & Holgate. The rally intends to expose white supremacist groups in the Northwest, as well as to bring diverse communities together in a stand against fascist organizing and violence aimed at Jewish people and people of color, sexual minorities, and activists.
The October 5 – 7 “Hammerfestâ┚¬��Ô�Å¡�â┚¬��Ô�Å¡� event is being planned by the neo-Nazi “Hammerskin Nationâ┚¬��Ô�Å¡�â┚¬��Ô�Å¡� skinhead organization. The Hammerskins hope to bring hundreds of racist skinheads and “white powerâ┚¬��Ô�Å¡�â┚¬��Ô�Å¡� revolutionists to its twentieth-anniversary celebration. The Hammerskins began their organized activity in 1987, when they were known as the Confederate Hammerskins, a violent and racist skinhead gang in Dallas, TX. The Hammerskins have now grown into a “Hammerskin Nationâ┚¬��Ô�Å¡�â┚¬��Ô�Å¡� with national and international affiliates. The Hammerskins combine thug tactics with recruitment through hate rock, to forward their Hitler-admiring agenda. The upcoming “Hammerfestâ┚¬��Ô�Å¡�â┚¬��Ô�Å¡� in Oregon was organized in conjunction with Volksfront, a Portland-led white supremacist group linked to two of the killers of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw in 1988. Similarly to the Hammerskins, Volksfront has chapters throughout North America and also on other continents.